• October 14, 2017: Soon is a speaker at the 37th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference in Chicago.

• July 20-23, 2017: Barrie presents on the Biotech Explorers Pathway at the ASBMB Special Symposium on Transforming Undergraduate Education in the Molecular Life Sciences in Tampa.

• July 8-14, 2017: Andrew Hanson (U. Florida) and Joe are Co-Chairs for the 2017 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Research Conference. Cynthia is one of the "Rising Stars" speakers in the GRC. At the Gordon Research Seminar for this GRC, Joe is the keynote speaker, Soon presents a talk, and Cynthia is a discussion leader.

• June 19-23, 2017: Joe is an invited speaker and workshop speaker at the 28th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in St. Louis. Joe also presents the JBC Herb Tabor Young Investigator Award to Emily Yang (Chen Lab, Duke University).

• June 12, 2017: Cynthia, Ashley, Sam, and Daniel attend the Local Missouri Auxin Meeting held at U. Missouri-St. Louis. Daniel, a high school student, presents his first poster and Cynthia gives a talk.

• June 2, 2017: Ashley successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis.

• May 9, 2017: Jonathan Herrmann, former undergrad now at Stanford, makes the cover of Biophysical Journal with his first grad school publication.

• May 8-9, 2017: Joe is a speaker at the 6th University of Missouri-Gyeongsang National University International Joint Symposium in Plant Biotechnology held at Mizzou. Thanks to Gary Stacey for hosting.

• May 2, 2017: Caroline receives the Gutsche Award from the Chemistry Department.

• May 1, 2017: Bio4522 and Kaleena present posters at the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• April 22-26, 2017: Soon presents his work on the rhizobial transcription factor NolR in the Plant Biochemistry & Metabolism spotlight session of the 2017 Experimental Biology/ASBMB Meeting in Chicago.

• March 21, 2017: Cover art for the special "Pulses" issue of the International Journal of Molecular Science.

• October 1, 2016: Joe starts as an Associate Editor at The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

• September 22-25, 2016: The 6th McDonnell International Scholars Academy Symposium is held in Brisbane, Australia. Joe was part of the organizing committee and presented in the Food & Water Theme Workshop.

• September 15, 2016: Joe, Soon, and Ashley publish a review in Science on how modern plant biology is helping the environment and sustainability. The review was highlighted by the Washington University Record.

• July 22, 2016: Daniel at the STARS closing ceremony with Provost Thorp.

• February 8, 2016: David named as a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Biomedical Fellow.

• December 11-14, 2015: Joe is a speaker at the 3rd International Plant Physiology Congress at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India and visits the National Institute for Plant Genome Research.

• August 9-14, 2015: Joe is a speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology in Vancouver.

• July 22-25, 2015: Soon presents at the 29th Protein Society Meeting in Barcelona and gives a talk at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

• July 19-24, 2015: Joe is an invited speaker at the Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Research Conference in Waterville Valley, NH and will be the 2017 Co-Chair with Prof. Andrew Hanson (U. Florida).

• July 5-9, 2015: Ashley presents at the 26th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Paris.

• December 10, 2013: Lab Holiday Lunch at Pastaria.

• November 2013: Tony presents posters at the Midstates Consortium for Math & Science (Nov 1-2) in St. Louis and at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Nashville (Nov 13-16).

• October 30, 2013: Corey successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis and will join the Levin lab for a postdoc.

• October 26, 2013: Tony and Ron present posters at the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• October 14, 2013: Joe is interviewed on The Prism (Voice of Russia - US Edition) about work in the lab on soybean and climate change (see Galant et al., 2012).

• October 8, 2013: Soon's Structure paper on the nematode PMT is published and accompanied with a preview by Joe Kappock.

• September 23-24, 2013: Joe presents at the ILSI-India/IFBiC/Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology Workshop on Biotech Safety Assessment in New Delhi, India.

• September 15, 2013: Corey and Ashley's JBC mini-review on plant hormone regulation by enzymes was highlighted in ASBMB Today.

• August 18-20, 2012: Corey presents at the USDA-NIFA Research Fellows Meeting in Washington, DC.

• August 12-16, 2012: Joe is an invited speaker at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology in Washington, DC.

• August 10-11, 2012: Soon presents a talk at the the 2012 Korea-US Science Cooperation Conference in Los Angeles.

• July 20-24, 2012: Jonathan attends the ASPB Meeting in Austin to present his ASPB-SURF research on the GH3 proteins.

• July 6, 2012: Soon successfully defends his thesis.

• June 28-July 2, 2012: Joe is a speaker at the 3rd Banff Plant Metabolism Conference.

• June 19, 2012: Geoff successfully defends his thesis and will head to the Xiao lab at NIH in the fall for a postdoc.

• May 24, 2012: Congratulations to Corey & Jonathan and Chloe, Max, & Ulrike (our collaborators in Grenoble) on their Science paper! The paper was highlighted by the Washington University Record, on the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility website, by the American Society of Plant Biologists, on the Argonne National Lab APS website, and in Argonne National Lab APS Science 2012 Annual Report. This is also the first paper from a USDA-NIFA fellow!

• May 18, 2012: Soon's hooding ceremony at Commencement.

• April 28, 2012: This year's Bio4522 Lab Class presents its poster at the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• April 20-24, 2012: Sheri and Tara present posters at the ASBMB Meeting in San Diego.

• April 15-20, 2012: Joe presents at two ILSI International Food Biotechnology Committee workshops in Montevideo, Uruguay and Santiago, Chile.

• April 6, 2012: Tara was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the American Society of Plant Biologists.

• March 30, 2012: Congratulations to Ashley Muehler, a 1st year Plant Biology graduate student, who received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which was based on her rotation in the lab. Tara Enders, a 1st year Plant Biology student starting her thesis in the Strader Lab, received an NSF-GRF Honorable Mention.

• January 6, 2012: Soon's paper on the structure and mechanism of the malaria parasite's phosphoethanolamine methyltransferase was selected as a JBC Paper of the Week with an accompanying author profile and JBC Podcast. This work was also featured in the Washington University Record, on the Voice of America, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences News website, the Argonne National Lab SBC website, and in ASBMB Today.

• December 11-15, 2011: Joe is a speaker at the 50th Phytochemical Society of North America Meeting in Kona, Hawaii.

• October 27, 2011: Saraceno - A Sustainable Future at the Kemper Art Museum. Joe was part of an interdisciplinary panel that discussed some of the concepts posed by Tomás Saraceno's art, such as the legacy of the utopian impulse in contemporary art and architecture and the scientific, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability.

• October 22, 2011: Sheri, Tara, and Jonathan present posters at the Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Tara receives an HHMI Travel Award to support her attendance at Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego.

• October 2011: Joe joins the ASPB-SURF Program Committee.

• October 20, 2011: Joe chairs and presents in the Plant Biotechnology session at the Midwest/Great Lakes American Chemical Society meeting.

• September 24-27, 2011: 27th New Phytologist Symposium at Biosphere II in Tuscon.

• July 21, 2011: Loren receives one of the four 2011 Ronald McDonald House Charities/HACER Scholarships.

• July 17-21, 2011: Joe is a speaker at the 4th International Conference on Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology, and Applications, Bad Nauheim, Germany.

• June 2011: Congratulations to Corey for receiving a USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Research Fellowship.

• May 23, 2011: Ashley successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. She will be heading to Florida for a postdoc at the USDA Citrus Research Center.

• April 21-24, 2010: Joe is a speaker and session chair at the 1st BIT Symposium on Enzymes and Biocatalysts in Shanghai.

• December 2-4, 2009: Joe is a session chair and speaker at the 6th International Conference on Phytotechnologies held in St. Louis.

• September 13-15, 2009: Joe presents at the 2nd Sulphyton Meeting on Plant Sulfur Research in Norwich (with a stop in London).

• August 18, 2009: Alex Markov was selected to receive the “Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research” for his STARS program paper.

• July 2009: Members of the Lab and Danforth Center join Dr. Danforth after receiving the 2009 ASPB Leadership in Science Public Service Award in Honolulu.

• June 25-27, 2009: The 2009 Phoenix Symposium on Protein Complexes in Signaling and Development Symposium in Glasgow.

• Summer 2009: The Lab ...

• March 2009: Joe accepted to the Fulbright Specialist Program.

• February 1-6, 2009: Congratulations to Naveen, a visiting scientist from the National Institute for Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India, who received a travel award to the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Lipids, in Galveston, TX.

• February 2009: Congratulations to Matt and Amy who received travel awards to attend the ASPB meeting in Honolulu, HI.

• November 15, 2008: Becky's Farewell Party

• October 14, 2008: Joe presents at the "25 Years of Plant Biology at the Salk Institute" Symposium.

• Summer 2008: The Lab ...

• July 30 - August 1, 2008: Joe presents at the First Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism.

• July 1, 2008: Joe appointed as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Washington University.

• June 28, 2008: Amy receives a travel award to present her ASPB-SURF research at the ASPB meeting in Merida, Mexico.

• June 7-12, 2008: The Summer Institute in Plant Biology: Proteomics and Metabolomics in Wuhan, China (with a brief detour to Shanghai).

• April 2008: Joe joins the editorial board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

• March 18, 2008: Matt was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the American Society of Plant Biologists.

• February 8, 2008: St. Louis Post-Dispatch publishes “Company Turns to Danforth Plant Center to Develop a Green Plastic” on the collaboration between the Danforth Center and Metabolix that is funded by the Missouri Life Sciences Trust Fund.

• January 12-16, 2008: Joe was a speaker at the XVI Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego.

• Septermber 29, 2007: Kumaran was a speaker at the 27th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference in Chicago, where he presented his work on protein-protein interactions in plant cysteine biosynthesis.

• Summer 2007: The Lab ...

• July 23, 2007: At the 2007 Phytochemical Society of North America meeting, Joe was an invited speaker and received an Arthur Neish Young Investigator Award. Kiani won the Best Undergraduate Poster Award, presented by Prof. Meinhard Zenk.